An editor has asked for a deletion review of Category:Pseudoscientists. Because you closed the deletion discussion for this page, speedily deleted it, or otherwise were interested in the page, you might want to participate in the deletion review. This is a limited reconsideration of one element of the decision, not a call for a reversal of the entire renaming. Mangoe (talk) 01:30, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
Well done for standing up for the close of category:Pseudoscientists, given that there was likely to be much sturm und drang from a disgruntled minority with any result, and well done to the group of you for a well-reasoned close that reflects Wikipedia's core values. Guy (Help!) 20:17, 2 June 2014 (UTC)
ThaddeusB, the QPQ you requested has been provided. Can you check to see whether it's valid, and if so, then if you don't spot any other issues, is it ready to get a tick? Thanks. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:36, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
On 4 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The World's Billionaires 2014, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Bill Gates (pictured) topped Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires in 2014, after not having topped the list in 2013, 2012, 2011, or 2010? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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On 4 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The World's Billionaires 2013, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Bill Gates (pictured) topped Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires in 2014, after not having topped the list in 2013, 2012, 2011, or 2010? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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On 4 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The World's Billionaires 2012, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Bill Gates (pictured) topped Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires in 2014, after not having topped the list in 2013, 2012, 2011, or 2010? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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On 4 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The World's Billionaires 2011, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Bill Gates (pictured) topped Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires in 2014, after not having topped the list in 2013, 2012, 2011, or 2010? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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On 4 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The World's Billionaires 2010, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Bill Gates (pictured) topped Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires in 2014, after not having topped the list in 2013, 2012, 2011, or 2010? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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In ANI, a user had thought that the line concerning Moche civilization can be proposed as hook.
What you think? I have expanded that one liner now.[1] What you think? OccultZone (Talk) 03:24, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
On 4 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article The World's Billionaires, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Bill Gates (pictured) topped Forbes' annual list of the world's billionaires in 2014, after not having topped the list in 2013, 2012, 2011, or 2010? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/The World's Billionaires. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Cas Liber (talk · contribs) 23:07, 4 June 2014 (UTC)
I thought I should leave a brief message here so... When I tagged the redirect, I had forgotten that there had actually been an article there previously (the reason for which I originally watched the page). I hadn't checked the history, so thanks for fixing the page. Dustin (talk) 21:11, 5 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Thaddeus, You commented on my attempt to create an article-- I keep trying to edit it and trying to do what was asked to get it approved but I can't figure out why it keeps getting rejected. I followed the instructions for citations, made sure it wasn't advertorial in nature, and added extra sources. Can you explain to me what I did wrong and why it isn't getting approved? I am really confused and would love to talk to a real person. :-) Incoronata81 (talk) 00:44, 6 June 2014 (UTC) Incoronata81 This is the article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:Articles_for_creation/Jack_Woodbridge
Hi ThaddeusB, Thanks for your closer inspection of Bonker's decline on my page. While it has gone through many rounds and has thus far remained un-approved, I do appreciate fair deliberation from editors. It's my first page, and so far has gone back and forth between several editors who are, sadly no longer active from what I can tell. I'm wondering if you could help with feedback on the page? Thus far I haven't really understood the claims of non-notability for Badlands. It's gotten a lot of press from very notable sources (New Yorker, Vogue, October mag, Atalantic, Observer, etc). I browsed a few other independent publishers in the same category (publishers founded in 2010, independent publishers), most of which have received little to any significant press coverage of their activities, with few references to personal blogs. Am I missing something? It is an art publisher, and the industry is insular and small, but I feel with the references I included in the wiki it should justify being notable...I don't know if it's bad form to request your attention to the article, but it's been over a year since I started, with many false starts and waiting and editors dropping out while I was working with them, and I'd really like to git 'er done. I really love this publisher, and all the publications they have made, and my personal knowledge of art publishing indicates to me beyond a doubt that they are of renown and get a lot of props for what they do from many angles. Sorry for the novel ;/
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Dear ThaddeusB, I submitted an article Philip Felleman and this morning had a message rejecting it from "Bonkers the Clown" (I kid you not) and then a later one from you, the content or context of which I cannot divine. The first I cannot find, now (possibly due to my lack of experience with Wikipedia authoring). I sense that my article, which was--I admit--about my own father, may violate the no OR rule. Can you confirm? The only aspects of article that are "original," however, are his biographical data. The significant career highlights are all substantiated in the various literature cited, including his own publications. I attempted to attend scrupulously to Wikipedia standards and style. Thanks for helping to clarify the status of the article and its prospects. If Dad's biographical data (parents, education, etc.) MUST have been previously published, the article (which, obviously, I believe he deserves) may have poor chances.
Thanks! Susan Felleman — Preceding unsigned comment added by SFelleman (talk • contribs) 01:42, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi Thaddeus Wiki is a fun and new experience for me. I have submitted an article which was not accepted. It said something about viewing reviewer's comments but I see only the general information. Is that what I need to review or was there something specific about the article I need to address. Thanks for any insights you may be able to provide --BethanyAnnD (talk) 01:50, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hello Thaddeus, I'm here to request you to undelete Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/June 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive/Bonkers The Clown to Wikipedia:WikiProject Articles for creation/June 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive/Needs re-review so that the other reviewers and myself can go back over those poor reviews and set them right. Last I knew, there was a consensus on the project talk page to not delete the page until all of those drafts had been re-reviewed. Thanks. — ((U|Technical 13)) (e • t • c) 12:54, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Just to let you know that this was promoted to GA today. Thanks for your great foundation, you should take most of the credit. The Rambling Man (talk) 13:10, 6 June 2014 (UTC)
Well done on your diligent work cleaning up the recent AfC kerfuffle. LukeSurl t c 14:28, 6 June 2014 (UTC) |
Would you take this as a proxy to post? I'm on an iPad which is not conducive to main page updates, otherwise I would do so. Stephen 02:47, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
Hello! When restoring an ITN item to improve the main page's balance, please be careful to retain any edits performed since its removal. (In this instance, various intervening changes were undone.) In such a circumstance, please copy and paste the blurb instead of reverting to the most recent revision containing it. Thanks! —David Levy 21:41, 7 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi again! I removed this image from ITN (and deleted it at Wikipedia and Commons) because it was a copyright violation. (It belongs to Getty Images and most likely was cropped from the version appearing here.)
I became suspicious when I noticed that it was uploaded at a low resolution via a new account with no other contributions. In such cases, it generally is best to err on the side of caution, as the likelihood of copyright infringement (even if not yet established conclusively) is great. Thanks! —David Levy 21:31, 8 June 2014 (UTC)
On 11 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Oscar Dystel, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that before Oscar Dystel made Bantam Books America's largest publisher of paperbacks, he worked on psychological warfare in World War II? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Oscar Dystel. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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I think you missed something here... (Note the signature) Looks like Luke is agreeing with himself ;) Bellerophon talk to me 21:24, 11 June 2014 (UTC)
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Hi. You accidentally signed these re-reviews as "Chris Troutman". Cheers, --LukeSurl t c 10:53, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
First of all, thank you for reviewing the two DYKs. Much appreciated. Could you at some point take a look at my recently created article Skogssamer. Appreciate it. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 16:21, 16 June 2014 (UTC)
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Materialscientist (talk) 05:58, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
Hi,
What is wrong with Daniel Keyes's photo? He was a prominent writer, passed away recently. Cheers, Lamro (talk) 15:29, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
I noticed that the picture on ITN today has changed to a picture of André Lotterer, but it just seems odd to me to only picture one of the three drivers, all of whom we have several photos of. I suggest, as a possibly better substitute, a possible crop of File:Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer at Le Mans Drivers Parade 2010.jpg as it includes all three drivers or possibly even File:Audi R18 No2.jpg showing the winning car, since Audi is mentioned in the blurb? The359 (Talk) 17:28, 18 June 2014 (UTC)
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For your work on improving Casey Kasem. A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 02:10, 20 June 2014 (UTC) |
Seconded, Stephen 03:12, 20 June 2014 (UTC)
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Just to say thank you for all your hard work at ITN, especially in improving articles so that they can appear on the main page. BencherliteTalk 11:13, 20 June 2014 (UTC) |
Please take a look at the Carolina Gynning article when you got time for it! I will nominate it for GA soon. Thanks.--BabbaQ (talk) 09:53, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
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I'm copping Bencherlite's barnstar and thanking you for your work on the Casey Kasem article. It's improved substantially since his death; I was following his case while he was alive and noted the article's poor quality, and it's very nice to see how far it's come. Keep it up. Tezero (talk) 20:18, 21 June 2014 (UTC) |
Just to let you know others beg to differ on your fail reason. See Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation#Notability. It is clearly ad-like and seeks to promote that brand, having probably been written by the owner. It is likely to never be accepted. If you are prone to accept articles such as this one, I suggest you seriously read up on notability criteria and practise reviewing more carefully. As for Draft:Lifeism, you're correct in that I should've added some comments, but the draft will never be accepted; it is clearly unencyclopaedic. Regards, FoCuSandLeArN (talk) 12:50, 25 June 2014 (UTC)
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On 27 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mekayla Diehl, which you recently nominated. The fact was ... that Mekayla Diehl forgave the attacker who molested her as a child, and was the first woman of Native American descent to win Miss Indiana USA? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Mekayla Diehl. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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User:WikiStatsBOT seems to have edited for the last time in 2010. Shall we mark it as inactive? -- Magioladitis (talk) 13:58, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
Thaddeus, will you try to make an alt2 as described at the talk page? See what happens. Hafspajen (talk) 17:28, 27 June 2014 (UTC)
On 28 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article International Institute for Species Exploration, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Top 10 New Species of the past year include a 40 foot (12 m) tall tree (pictured), a crustacean that looks like a skeleton, a protist that acts like a sponge, and a fungus named after the King of the Netherlands? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/International Institute for Species Exploration. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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On 28 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Penicillium vanoranjei, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Top 10 New Species of the past year include a 40 foot (12 m) tall tree (pictured), a crustacean that looks like a skeleton, a protist that acts like a sponge, and a fungus named after the King of the Netherlands? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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On 28 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Spiculosiphon oceana, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that the Top 10 New Species of the past year include a 40 foot (12 m) tall tree (pictured), a crustacean that looks like a skeleton, a protist that acts like a sponge, and a fungus named after the King of the Netherlands? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 00:33, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
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For one of the best DYKs I've seen in a long time - the catchy piece on those new species epitomises what makes that section excel. hamiltonstone (talk) 04:04, 28 June 2014 (UTC) |
On 28 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Will Brooke (businessman), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that businessman turned political candidate Will Brooke described the Affordable Care Act as a "planned economy disaster"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Will Brooke (businessman). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Gatoclass (talk) 16:02, 28 June 2014 (UTC)
Thanks for nominating this item about the auction price record for a popular music manuscript. I read the news today, oh boy [2] Mick gold (talk) 07:06, 29 June 2014 (UTC)
On 29 June 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article VetUK, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that VetUK, which has annual revenues of more than £10 million as of 2010, initially operated out of the living room of co-founder Iain Booth? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/VetUK. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
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After an extremely close race, Round 3 is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years- 321 was required in 2013, while 243 points were needed in 2012. Pool C's Godot13 (submissions) was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to a 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, Casliber (submissions) finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's , whose contributions included featured articles Russian battleship Poltava (1894) and Russian battleship Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six out of eight making it to the next round.
The round saw this year's first featured portal, with Sven Manguard (submissions) taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to 12george1 (submissions) and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from Figureskatingfan (submissions), a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from Cloudz679 (submissions) and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of Sven Manguard (submissions).
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I just wanted to say thanks for approving this. I really appreciate it.
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On 12 July 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Johnny Leach, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Johnny Leach won three World Table Tennis Championships and was described as one of "the sport's most influential ambassadors and promoters"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Johnny Leach. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
— Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:37, 12 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello ThaddeusB, actually I want to know about how should I re-open Template:Did you know nominations/Operation Zarb-e-Azb. Article's been promoted to GA and now I want to re-nominate it, so help me. --Captain Assassin! «T ♦ C ♦ G» 14:53, 13 July 2014 (UTC)
There is a proposal at Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Articles_for_creation/June_2014_Backlog_Elimination_Drive#We_need_a_conclusion that merits your consideration Fiddle Faddle 16:46, 14 July 2014 (UTC)
On 16 July 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Eduardo Garcia (chef), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that with the prosthetic arm he had fitted after an electrical accident, "bionic chef" Eduardo Garcia has "superpowers"? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Eduardo Garcia (chef). You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Gatoclass (talk) 15:13, 16 July 2014 (UTC)
As you may know, I write for the Signpost, basically Wikipedia's newsletter. I'd like to do a feature on the semifinalists, would you be willing to provide, say, 250 to 500 words saying: (1.) Why did you join the Wikicup? (2.) What you you hope to get out of it? and (3.) Which of your contributions to the Wikicup are your favourites?
Not quite sure how I'll order them - I'll probably make the ed17 decide, as, you know, Conflict of Interest: I am a semifinalist. I'd imagine point order or alphabetical or the like.
Can you please reply at Wikipedia:Wikipedia Signpost/2014-07-30/Wikicup#ThaddeusB? Thanks! Adam Cuerden (talk) 00:22, 19 July 2014 (UTC)
The article April 2014 lunar eclipse you nominated as a good article has passed ; see Talk:April 2014 lunar eclipse for comments about the article. Well done! If the article has not already been on the main page as an "In the news" or "Did you know" item, you can nominate it to appear in Did you know. Message delivered by Legobot, on behalf of TLSuda -- TLSuda (talk) 22:22, 22 July 2014 (UTC)
Hello ThaddeusB, i'm from pt.wiki and we are discussing the use the bot there. Why it´s inactive? Rodrigolopes (talk) 11:54, 24 July 2014 (UTC)
The AFC Backlog Buster Barnstar
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Congratulations, ThaddeusB! You're receiving the The Articles for Creation Barnstar because you got more than 175 points during the recent AFC Backlog elimination drive in June 2014! Thank you for you contributions to Wikipedia at-large and helping to keep the backlog down. We hope you continue reviewing submissions and stay in touch at the talk page. Thank you and keep up the good work! (t) Josve05a (c) 23:51, 31 July 2014 (UTC) |
ThaddeusB, just a friendly reminder that you still need to do three more QPQs for this nomination. It's been over a month since you posted that you would do them soon. Please do them as soon as possible—if it's going to be longer than a week, let us know and keep us apprised of your progress. I'd hate for someone to close the nomination due to inaction when it's this close to being approved. BlueMoonset (talk) 15:24, 11 August 2014 (UTC)
You are invited to offer your two cents here. Schmidt, Michael Q. 07:43, 20 August 2014 (UTC)
On 29 August 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Fabien Cousteau, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Fabien Cousteau commissioned a "Trojan shark" submarine for filming a documentary on great white sharks, and recently spent 31 days living underwater? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Fabien Cousteau. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Thank you for the new content Victuallers (talk) 12:04, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
On 29 August 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Mission 31, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Fabien Cousteau commissioned a "Trojan shark" submarine for filming a documentary on great white sharks, and recently spent 31 days living underwater? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Thank you for the new content Victuallers (talk) 12:04, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
On 29 August 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Troy (submarine), which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Fabien Cousteau commissioned a "Trojan shark" submarine for filming a documentary on great white sharks, and recently spent 31 days living underwater? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Thank you for the new content Victuallers (talk) 12:05, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
On 29 August 2014, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Shark: Mind of a Demon, which you recently created or substantially expanded. The fact was ... that Fabien Cousteau commissioned a "Trojan shark" submarine for filming a documentary on great white sharks, and recently spent 31 days living underwater? You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, live views, daily totals), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page. |
Thank you for the new content Victuallers (talk) 12:05, 29 August 2014 (UTC)
The final of the 2014 WikiCup begins in a few short minutes! Our eight finalists are listed below, along with their placement in Round 4:
We say goodbye to this year's semi-finalists. Matty.007 (submissions), ThaddeusB (submissions), WikiRedactor (submissions), Figureskatingfan (submissions), Yellow Evan (submissions), Prism (submissions) and Cloudz679 (submissions) have all performed well to reach this stage of the competition, and we hope they will all be joining us again next year.
There are two upcoming competitions unrelated to the WikiCup which may be of interest to those who receive this newsletter. The Stub Contest will run through September, and revolves around expanding stub articles, especially high-importance or old stubs. In addition, a proposal has been made for a new competition, the GA Cup, which the organisers plan to run next year. This competition is based on the WikiCup and aims to reduce the good article review backlog.
There is now a thread for brainstorming on how next year's WikiCup competition should work. Please come along and share your thoughts- What works? What doesn't work? What needs changing? Signups for next year's competition will be open soon; we will be in touch. If, at this stage of the competition, you are keen to help the with the WikiCup, please do what you can to participate in review processes. Our finalists will find things much easier if the backlogs at good article candidates, featured article candidates, featured picture candidates and the rest are kept at a minimum. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:09, 31 August 2014 (UTC)
In one month's time, we will know our WikiCup 2014 champion. Newcomer Godot13 (submissions) has taken a strong lead with a featured list (historical coats of arms of the U.S. states from 1876) and a raft of featured pictures. Reigning champion Cwmhiraeth (submissions) is in second place with a number of high-importance biology articles, including new FA Isopoda and new GA least weasel. Casliber (submissions), who is in his fifth WikiCup final, is in third, with featured articles Pictor and Epacris impressa.
Signups for the 2015 WikiCup are open. All Wikipedians, new and experienced, are warmly invited to sign up for the competition. Wikipedians interested in friendly competition may also like to sign up for the GA Cup, a new WikiCup-inspired competition which revolves around completing good article reviews. As ever, questions are welcome on Wikipedia talk:WikiCup, and the judges are reachable on their talk pages or by email. Good luck! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:11, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
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A barnstar to you for re-reviewing at least 25 user reviews during the WikiProject Articles for creation June 2014 Backlog Elimination Drive. Thanks for contributing to the backlog elimination drive! Posted by (t) Josve05a (c) on 08:41, 29 October 2014 (UTC), on behalf of WikiProject Articles for creation |
The 2014 WikiCup champion is Godot13 (submissions), who flew the flag of the Smithsonian Institution. This was Godot13's first WikiCup competition and, over the 10 months of the competition, he has produced (among other contributions) two featured lists and an incredible 292 featured pictures, including architectural photographs and scans of historical documents. Cwmhiraeth (submissions), 2012 and 2013 WikiCup champion, came in second, having written a large number of biology-related articles. Casliber (submissions), WikiCup finalist every year since 2010, finished in third.
A full list of our prize-winners follows:
Congratulations to everyone who has been successful in this year's WikiCup, whether you made it to the final rounds or not, and a particular congratulations to the newcomers to the WikiCup who have participated this year. We warmly invite all of you to sign up for next year's competition. Discussions and polls concerning potential rules changes are also open, and all are welcome to participate. The WikiCup judges will be back in touch over the coming months, and we hope to see you all in the 2014 competition. Until then, it only remains to once again congratulate our worthy winners, and thank all participants for their involvement! If you wish to start or stop receiving this newsletter, please feel free to add or remove yourself from Wikipedia:WikiCup/Newsletter/Send. J Milburn (talk · contribs) The ed17 (talk · contribs) and Miyagawa (talk · contribs) 22:52, 4 November 2014 (UTC)
Good to see you back a bit. Stay a while. The Rambling Man (talk) 21:45, 10 November 2014 (UTC)
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Hello ThaddeusB. This message is part of a mass mailing to people who appear active in reviewing articles for creation submissions. First of all, thank you for taking part in this important work! I'm sorry this message is a form letter – it really was the only way I could think of to covey the issue economically. Of course, this also means that I have not looked to see whether the matter is applicable to you in particular.
The issue is in rather large numbers of copyright violations ("copyvios") making their way through AfC reviews without being detected (even when easy to check, and even when hallmarks of copyvios in the text that should have invited a check, were glaring). A second issue is the correct method of dealing with them when discovered.
If you don't do so already, I'd like to ask for your to help with this problem by taking on the practice of performing a copyvio check as the first step in any AfC review. The most basic method is to simply copy a unique but small portion of text from the draft body and run it through a search engine in quotation marks. Trying this from two different paragraphs is recommended. (If you have any question about whether the text was copied from the draft, rather than the other way around (a "backwards copyvio"), the Wayback Machine is very useful for sussing that out.)
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The article linked together two related topics. I don't see why we should erase and entire article because it just might offend someone.. — Preceding unsigned comment added by StarkeyOrbits (talk • contribs)
Hey. You reviewed my article about the "Dandy" character from Space Dandy. You said that there has to be "sources talking about the character in a real world fashion"-I don't quite understand what you mean. Do I need to pull from sources that talk specifically about the character's impact and personality as opposed to articles that simply feature the character as part of the show? Exactly how many citations do I need? Thanks,Kinfoll77 (talk) 00:48, 25 November 2014 (UTC)
Hi Thaddeus; I have mentioned you in passing in this AN/I thread. You are welcome to contribute or ignore it as you see fit. J Milburn (talk) 12:57, 27 November 2014 (UTC)
With regard to this edit. Have you read Wikipedia:General sanctions/Syrian Civil War and Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant#Remedies? Why have you gone into an archive and made an arbitrary change declaring that a ban I imposed are lifted without discussing it with me first? Particularly as when this was a live discussion at WP:AN there was no consensus for it to be lifted. I offered to lift it:
I initiated the RfC on the moratorium, to counter the the argument presented here that is is an arbitrary action with no support. I would prefer to unilaterally lift the sanctions on GraniteSand, but GraniteSand you have to give a clear indication that you will not only follow DGG's requirement "[GraniteSand] is willing to accept not discussing renaming of this article anywhere on WP until the end of the moratorium, and not bringing an RfC on the matter or encouraging one." but in addition agree not to discuss the Moratorium anywhere on WP (or participate in the current RfC on the Moratorium -- If you wish to have your opposition to the moratorium noted in the Open RfC I will do that for you). -- PBS (talk) 11:46, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
To which GraniteSand replied
Lifting my topic ban while insisting that I not participate in the only subject I was an active in the topic isn't lifting the topic ban at all. ... GraniteSand (talk) 23:08, 31 October 2014 (UTC)
You have written on "GraniteSand's" talk page
- I have lifted the broad topic ban. Note, however, that any discussion of the artcile title will be viewed as disruption and grounds for an immediate block until the moratorium expires.
The problem is that this is that you have only said that discussing the article title will be views as disruption, but you have said nothing about discussing the moratorium.
So where has "GraniteSand has agreed to abide by the mroatorium," and agree not to discuss the moratorium?
-- PBS (talk) 00:32, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello, I am one of the co-authors of this article. First, thanks for your review. Could you please tell us specifically which content you believe merits rewrite on account of impinging on someone's else's copyright? If we were to guess, perhaps you are concerned about the text we have quoted from various news articles. If so, would it help if we quote the text verbatim from those articles? As far as I can tell, that would constitute fair use.
Many thanks,
punkish. Punkish (talk) 17:11, 5 December 2014 (UTC)
Hello everyone, and may we wish you all a happy holiday season. As you will probably already know, the 2015 WikiCup begins in the new year; there is still time to sign up. We have a few important announcements concerning the future of the WikiCup.
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Hi, I am not very good with this Wikipedia process. I made a contribution to the discussion about the approved entry about my father. "Though I am not very familiar with Wikipedia's approval/deletion process I was surprised to read the comments above. "I do believe there's a slight chance Săhleanu may be notable" is a strange comment about a person that has (verifiably) authored 32 books. As ThaddeusB rightly observed "I'm not sure what to really expect from a non-English-speaking person who was active 50 years ago" to which I would add "in a Communist country isolated from contacts with the Western scientific world". Nevertheless I understand the need for additional independent references to Victor Sahleanu. I did some more research for such sources and I found this recent one http://www.caleaeuropeana.ro/simpozionul-fr-i-rainer-2013-antropologie-si-mediu-dedicat-lui-victor-aurelian-sahleanu/ , which would satisfy, I believe, the criteria to include my father's entry in Wikipedia. The page has versions in three languages, Romanian, English and French." How do I know if that is enough to satisfy Wikipedia's requirements / the people who asked for deletion? ValentinSahleanu (talk) 17:44, 10 December 2014 (UTC)
Hi there! I left a comment on the Crenshaw Communications page regarding possible deletion. Perhaps we can discuss? Thank you! Techieguy2012 (talk) 22:40, 15 December 2014 (UTC)
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